Mainstream media is at it again with reports about Bitcoin that are very far fetched. The journalists of these stories appear to have no clue what they are writing about.
Hang on to your cash. This dash to digitis payment is dangerousCashlessSociety
Banknotes and coins are a public utility, and companies make no profit from their use. Hence the drive for cashlessness – and with it, greater surveillance
UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION STARTS PILOT SCHEME WITH COINBASESteven Rhyner
The United Services Automobile Association (USAA) has started a pilot integration scheme withCoinbase, allowing customers to view their Coinbase balance through their USAA account.
BITCOIN IS POTENTIAL NATIONAL THREAT, SAYS U.S. REGULATORSteven Rhyner
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WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA BEHIND ETHEREUM’S WORLD COMPUTER?Steven Rhyner
Since the beginning of 2016, those with a pulse on the digital currency industry have eagerly watched the development of next-generation cryptocurrency platform Ethereum.
WHAT BITCOIN PIZZA DAY CAN TEACH US TODAYSteven Rhyner
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THE 5 GREATEST MOMENTS IN BITCOIN HISTORYSteven Rhyner
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Hang on to your cash. This dash to digitis payment is dangerousCashlessSociety
Banknotes and coins are a public utility, and companies make no profit from their use. Hence the drive for cashlessness – and with it, greater surveillance
UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION STARTS PILOT SCHEME WITH COINBASESteven Rhyner
The United Services Automobile Association (USAA) has started a pilot integration scheme withCoinbase, allowing customers to view their Coinbase balance through their USAA account.
BITCOIN IS POTENTIAL NATIONAL THREAT, SAYS U.S. REGULATORSteven Rhyner
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WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA BEHIND ETHEREUM’S WORLD COMPUTER?Steven Rhyner
Since the beginning of 2016, those with a pulse on the digital currency industry have eagerly watched the development of next-generation cryptocurrency platform Ethereum.
WHAT BITCOIN PIZZA DAY CAN TEACH US TODAYSteven Rhyner
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THE 5 GREATEST MOMENTS IN BITCOIN HISTORYSteven Rhyner
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FIAT TO GOLD YES, BTC TO GOLD NOT SO EASYSteven Rhyner
Bitstamp, one of the biggest bitcoin exchanges, adds gold withdrawal option for their customers in the EU. Gold price is quoted only in US dollars and one must also have an available balance in USD.
BITCOIN HOLDERS CAN NOW RECEIVE DAILY INTEREST PAYMENTS ON COINBASESteven Rhyner
On January 21st, during the North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami, BSAVE announced itsBitcoin savings account for Coinbase wallet users. This new feature allows Coinbase clients to receive daily interest payments.
BITCOIN PRICE FLUCTUATION IN 2015 AND A FORECAST FOR 2016Steven Rhyner
The year 2015 has ended and investors can now calculate the result of their investment activities. What has Bitcoin brought to us last year? On the first day on the year 2015, January 01, 2015, the price of Bitcoin moved to the level of $313, which is 59.35% less than a year before that, on January 01, 2014, when the price was $770.
1 IN 6 NODES NOW SUPPORT BITCOIN CLASSICSteven Rhyner
The Bitcoin block size debate is still in effect as we speak, and things are heating up once again between Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Classic supporters. Now that a working client for Bitcoin Classic users has been released, various Bitcoin nodes seem to be favoring this solution over Bitcoin Core.
STATE REGULATION CHANGES THE GAME FOR BITCOIN SELLERS IN NEW HAMPSHIRESteven Rhyner
If you sell or trade bitcoins in the state of New Hampshire, you’ve probably heard the big news: as of January 1st, 2016, bitcoin sellers are considered money transmitters under New Hampshire law, and must be licensed and bonded as such.
COMMONWEALTH PUSHES MEMBER COUNTRIES TO DECLARE BITCOIN LEGALSteven Rhyner
The Commonwealth of Nations has released a new report that calls on its 53 member countries to speak out about the legality of bitcoin and other digital currencies.
IS BITCOIN ABOUT TO BREAKOUT? CHARTS SUGGEST SOSteven Rhyner
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TAXES CLAIM HALF PRINCE’S ESTATE: HE SHOULD HAVE LEFT BITCOIN BEHINDSteven Rhyner
Prince, the beloved, recently departed pop star, may have up to half of his estate go to the government. He could have avoided losing much of his financial legacy by using Bitcoin instead.
company names mentioned herein are for identification and educational purposes only and are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners.
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A s Y o u R e a d , T h in k A b o u t : How can we stop the spread of fake news?
Y
ou’re scrolling through your Twitter feed
when all of a sudden, a shocking headline
fills your screen: “England BANS VIDEO
GAMES!!” Outraged, you text your friends,
who in turn text their friends. Could the
United States be next, you wonder?
Soon, millions of people across the country
are sharing the article on Facebook and Twitter.
Within hours, the story has gone viral. The only
problem? The article is fake—and you fell for it.
Made-up stories like that one are designed to look
real but are completely or partly untrue. Sometimes
it’s easy to tell when an article is false—words might
be misspelled or randomly capitalized, or the headline
might contain multiple exclamation points. But more
often than not, fake-news writers are careful to make
their stories seem real by including headlines, details,
and data that sound believable.
Such articles may seem harmless, but they can have
real consequences. For example, experts say that false
stories may have influenced the 2016 U.S. presidential
election. During the campaign,
made-up articles about the two main
candidates—including current president
Donald Trump—were shared on
Facebook nearly 38 million times. Many
people now worry that deceptive stories
could affect the outcome of next year’s
presidential election.
That would be a major problem, says
Alan C. Miller. He’s the founder of the
News Literacy Project, an organization
that helps students learn how to spot
misinformation. Part of being a good citizen means
knowing what’s happening in the world around us—
and being mindful that not everything we see on the
internet and social media is true.
“The overwhelming majority of information available
online has not been verified,” says Miller. “It has
not been approved by an editor or signed off on by a
fact-checker. So we all need to have a healthy amount
of skepticism about what we see.”
History of Lies
The act of influencing people with fake stories may
seem new, but it’s been around for centuries. During the
American Revolution (1775-1783), Benjamin Franklin,
C h eck o u t o u r v id e o a t
junior.sicholastic.com
f o r easy t ip s on
h o w t o s p o t m a d e -u p
s to rie s , e v a lu a te an
a u th o r’ s sou rces,
a n d id e n tify a ds o n
s o c ia l m e d ia .
M a n y e x p e rts
w o r r y t h a t
fa k e n ew s
s to rie s c o u ld
in flu e n c e
n e x t y e a r ’s
p re s id e n tia l
e le c tio n .
one of the nation’s founders, was VIDEO
himself guilty of spreading false
stories. He attempted to increase
support for the war by writing
articles that falsely claimed that
the British had teamed up with
Native Americans to murder
colonial women and children.
In the late 1800s, newspapers competed
for readers by printing shocking headlines and
overdramatizing stories. Sometimes writers made up
quotes altogether an.
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A s Y o u R e a d , T h in k A b o u t : How can we stop the spread of fake news?
Y
ou’re scrolling through your Twitter feed
when all of a sudden, a shocking headline
fills your screen: “England BANS VIDEO
GAMES!!” Outraged, you text your friends,
who in turn text their friends. Could the
United States be next, you wonder?
Soon, millions of people across the country
are sharing the article on Facebook and Twitter.
Within hours, the story has gone viral. The only
problem? The article is fake—and you fell for it.
Made-up stories like that one are designed to look
real but are completely or partly untrue. Sometimes
it’s easy to tell when an article is false—words might
be misspelled or randomly capitalized, or the headline
might contain multiple exclamation points. But more
often than not, fake-news writers are careful to make
their stories seem real by including headlines, details,
and data that sound believable.
Such articles may seem harmless, but they can have
real consequences. For example, experts say that false
stories may have influenced the 2016 U.S. presidential
election. During the campaign,
made-up articles about the two main
candidates—including current president
Donald Trump—were shared on
Facebook nearly 38 million times. Many
people now worry that deceptive stories
could affect the outcome of next year’s
presidential election.
That would be a major problem, says
Alan C. Miller. He’s the founder of the
News Literacy Project, an organization
that helps students learn how to spot
misinformation. Part of being a good citizen means
knowing what’s happening in the world around us—
and being mindful that not everything we see on the
internet and social media is true.
“The overwhelming majority of information available
online has not been verified,” says Miller. “It has
not been approved by an editor or signed off on by a
fact-checker. So we all need to have a healthy amount
of skepticism about what we see.”
History of Lies
The act of influencing people with fake stories may
seem new, but it’s been around for centuries. During the
American Revolution (1775-1783), Benjamin Franklin,
C h eck o u t o u r v id e o a t
junior.sicholastic.com
f o r easy t ip s on
h o w t o s p o t m a d e -u p
s to rie s , e v a lu a te an
a u th o r’ s sou rces,
a n d id e n tify a ds o n
s o c ia l m e d ia .
M a n y e x p e rts
w o r r y t h a t
fa k e n ew s
s to rie s c o u ld
in flu e n c e
n e x t y e a r ’s
p re s id e n tia l
e le c tio n .
one of the nation’s founders, was VIDEO
himself guilty of spreading false
stories. He attempted to increase
support for the war by writing
articles that falsely claimed that
the British had teamed up with
Native Americans to murder
colonial women and children.
In the late 1800s, newspapers competed
for readers by printing shocking headlines and
overdramatizing stories. Sometimes writers made up
quotes altogether an.
company names mentioned herein are for identification and educational purposes only and are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners.
FIAT TO GOLD YES, BTC TO GOLD NOT SO EASYSteven Rhyner
Bitstamp, one of the biggest bitcoin exchanges, adds gold withdrawal option for their customers in the EU. Gold price is quoted only in US dollars and one must also have an available balance in USD.
BITCOIN HOLDERS CAN NOW RECEIVE DAILY INTEREST PAYMENTS ON COINBASESteven Rhyner
On January 21st, during the North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami, BSAVE announced itsBitcoin savings account for Coinbase wallet users. This new feature allows Coinbase clients to receive daily interest payments.
BITCOIN PRICE FLUCTUATION IN 2015 AND A FORECAST FOR 2016Steven Rhyner
The year 2015 has ended and investors can now calculate the result of their investment activities. What has Bitcoin brought to us last year? On the first day on the year 2015, January 01, 2015, the price of Bitcoin moved to the level of $313, which is 59.35% less than a year before that, on January 01, 2014, when the price was $770.
1 IN 6 NODES NOW SUPPORT BITCOIN CLASSICSteven Rhyner
The Bitcoin block size debate is still in effect as we speak, and things are heating up once again between Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Classic supporters. Now that a working client for Bitcoin Classic users has been released, various Bitcoin nodes seem to be favoring this solution over Bitcoin Core.
STATE REGULATION CHANGES THE GAME FOR BITCOIN SELLERS IN NEW HAMPSHIRESteven Rhyner
If you sell or trade bitcoins in the state of New Hampshire, you’ve probably heard the big news: as of January 1st, 2016, bitcoin sellers are considered money transmitters under New Hampshire law, and must be licensed and bonded as such.
COMMONWEALTH PUSHES MEMBER COUNTRIES TO DECLARE BITCOIN LEGALSteven Rhyner
The Commonwealth of Nations has released a new report that calls on its 53 member countries to speak out about the legality of bitcoin and other digital currencies.
IS BITCOIN ABOUT TO BREAKOUT? CHARTS SUGGEST SOSteven Rhyner
{Several|A number of|Numerous} {factors|elements|aspects|variables} {have|have actually} {lead to|resulted in|caused|brought about} {a surge|a rise} in the {price|cost|rate} of Bitcoin this year. {One of|Among} the {main|primary|major} {factors|elements|aspects|variables} {has|has actually} been the instability in China {and|as well as|and also} Bitcoin {emerging as|becoming} {somewhat|rather} of {a safe haven|a safe house}. The Brexit {referendum|mandate} {too|as well|also} {led to|resulted in|caused|brought about} {price|value} {hikes|walks|treks} in Bitcoin.
TAXES CLAIM HALF PRINCE’S ESTATE: HE SHOULD HAVE LEFT BITCOIN BEHINDSteven Rhyner
Prince, the beloved, recently departed pop star, may have up to half of his estate go to the government. He could have avoided losing much of his financial legacy by using Bitcoin instead.
company names mentioned herein are for identification and educational purposes only and are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners.
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A s Y o u R e a d , T h in k A b o u t : How can we stop the spread of fake news?
Y
ou’re scrolling through your Twitter feed
when all of a sudden, a shocking headline
fills your screen: “England BANS VIDEO
GAMES!!” Outraged, you text your friends,
who in turn text their friends. Could the
United States be next, you wonder?
Soon, millions of people across the country
are sharing the article on Facebook and Twitter.
Within hours, the story has gone viral. The only
problem? The article is fake—and you fell for it.
Made-up stories like that one are designed to look
real but are completely or partly untrue. Sometimes
it’s easy to tell when an article is false—words might
be misspelled or randomly capitalized, or the headline
might contain multiple exclamation points. But more
often than not, fake-news writers are careful to make
their stories seem real by including headlines, details,
and data that sound believable.
Such articles may seem harmless, but they can have
real consequences. For example, experts say that false
stories may have influenced the 2016 U.S. presidential
election. During the campaign,
made-up articles about the two main
candidates—including current president
Donald Trump—were shared on
Facebook nearly 38 million times. Many
people now worry that deceptive stories
could affect the outcome of next year’s
presidential election.
That would be a major problem, says
Alan C. Miller. He’s the founder of the
News Literacy Project, an organization
that helps students learn how to spot
misinformation. Part of being a good citizen means
knowing what’s happening in the world around us—
and being mindful that not everything we see on the
internet and social media is true.
“The overwhelming majority of information available
online has not been verified,” says Miller. “It has
not been approved by an editor or signed off on by a
fact-checker. So we all need to have a healthy amount
of skepticism about what we see.”
History of Lies
The act of influencing people with fake stories may
seem new, but it’s been around for centuries. During the
American Revolution (1775-1783), Benjamin Franklin,
C h eck o u t o u r v id e o a t
junior.sicholastic.com
f o r easy t ip s on
h o w t o s p o t m a d e -u p
s to rie s , e v a lu a te an
a u th o r’ s sou rces,
a n d id e n tify a ds o n
s o c ia l m e d ia .
M a n y e x p e rts
w o r r y t h a t
fa k e n ew s
s to rie s c o u ld
in flu e n c e
n e x t y e a r ’s
p re s id e n tia l
e le c tio n .
one of the nation’s founders, was VIDEO
himself guilty of spreading false
stories. He attempted to increase
support for the war by writing
articles that falsely claimed that
the British had teamed up with
Native Americans to murder
colonial women and children.
In the late 1800s, newspapers competed
for readers by printing shocking headlines and
overdramatizing stories. Sometimes writers made up
quotes altogether an.
A s Y o u R e a d , T h in k A b o u t How can we st.docxannetnash8266
A s Y o u R e a d , T h in k A b o u t : How can we stop the spread of fake news?
Y
ou’re scrolling through your Twitter feed
when all of a sudden, a shocking headline
fills your screen: “England BANS VIDEO
GAMES!!” Outraged, you text your friends,
who in turn text their friends. Could the
United States be next, you wonder?
Soon, millions of people across the country
are sharing the article on Facebook and Twitter.
Within hours, the story has gone viral. The only
problem? The article is fake—and you fell for it.
Made-up stories like that one are designed to look
real but are completely or partly untrue. Sometimes
it’s easy to tell when an article is false—words might
be misspelled or randomly capitalized, or the headline
might contain multiple exclamation points. But more
often than not, fake-news writers are careful to make
their stories seem real by including headlines, details,
and data that sound believable.
Such articles may seem harmless, but they can have
real consequences. For example, experts say that false
stories may have influenced the 2016 U.S. presidential
election. During the campaign,
made-up articles about the two main
candidates—including current president
Donald Trump—were shared on
Facebook nearly 38 million times. Many
people now worry that deceptive stories
could affect the outcome of next year’s
presidential election.
That would be a major problem, says
Alan C. Miller. He’s the founder of the
News Literacy Project, an organization
that helps students learn how to spot
misinformation. Part of being a good citizen means
knowing what’s happening in the world around us—
and being mindful that not everything we see on the
internet and social media is true.
“The overwhelming majority of information available
online has not been verified,” says Miller. “It has
not been approved by an editor or signed off on by a
fact-checker. So we all need to have a healthy amount
of skepticism about what we see.”
History of Lies
The act of influencing people with fake stories may
seem new, but it’s been around for centuries. During the
American Revolution (1775-1783), Benjamin Franklin,
C h eck o u t o u r v id e o a t
junior.sicholastic.com
f o r easy t ip s on
h o w t o s p o t m a d e -u p
s to rie s , e v a lu a te an
a u th o r’ s sou rces,
a n d id e n tify a ds o n
s o c ia l m e d ia .
M a n y e x p e rts
w o r r y t h a t
fa k e n ew s
s to rie s c o u ld
in flu e n c e
n e x t y e a r ’s
p re s id e n tia l
e le c tio n .
one of the nation’s founders, was VIDEO
himself guilty of spreading false
stories. He attempted to increase
support for the war by writing
articles that falsely claimed that
the British had teamed up with
Native Americans to murder
colonial women and children.
In the late 1800s, newspapers competed
for readers by printing shocking headlines and
overdramatizing stories. Sometimes writers made up
quotes altogether an.
company names mentioned herein are for identification and educational purposes only and are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners.
4 REASONS WHY YOUR NATION WILL KILL CASH FOR A DIGITAL CURRENCYSteven Rhyner
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‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
role of women and girls in various terror groupssadiakorobi2
Women have three distinct types of involvement: direct involvement in terrorist acts; enabling of others to commit such acts; and facilitating the disengagement of others from violent or extremist groups.
In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
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हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
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1. teamsteverhyner.com http://www.teamsteverhyner.com/mainstream-media-fails-at-bitcoin-again/
Steven L.
Rhyner
Mainstream Media Fails at Bitcoin Again
Mainstream media is at it again with reports about Bitcoin that are very far fetched. The journalists of these
stories appear to have no clue what they are writing about. This week the Irish Mirror has detailed the rise of
synthetic drugs and children buying them with “untraceable” digital currency.
Also read: Politicians & Banks Helped Bitcoin Beat All Sovereign Currencies in 2015
“RATINGS DON’T LAST. GOOD JOURNALISM DOES.”
–DAN RATHER
2. “Teenagers are using untraceable currency Bitcoin to buy
dangerous drugs online,” reads the click bait headline
referencing a source from over three years ago.
The biggest problem with this story is the lack of attention
mainstream media gives to the parents of these so-called
situations. What these small-minded journalists don’t question is
why children 14 and younger have access to bank accounts and
credit cards in order to purchase Bitcoin. There are not many
accessible ways to purchase the virtual money without a bank
account (traceable) or a credit card (also traceable) or
Localbitcoins (unlikely). Now it would be even more far-fetched to
assume that these kids took one of the last routes to purchase
the currency by Local Bitcoin’s. It’s hard to imagine children
under 14 meeting local cryptocurrency sellers in public face-to-
face.
But let’s assume they had access to all of these methods. Each
and everyone one these methods to gather Bitcoin should be under parents’ supervision. However, it seems these
moms and dads have very little control over their children if they have access to any of these purchasing methods. As
a parent myself I’d say it’s pure negligence on their behalf if their kids were accessing these tools to buy bitcoin.
“ABSOLUTE TRUTH IS A VERY RARE AND DANGEROUS COMMODITY IN THE CONTEXT OF
PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISM.”
–HUNTER S. THOMPSON
According to the article’s “sources,” getting drugs delivered to your door in an untraceable manner is just too
easy. “You can have drugs delivered to your door with just a few clicks of a mouse,” the article reads. “You can do this
without any traceability on your bank account and those who want these drugs can even have them shipped to a
location that is not their home.”
I’m not sure that the fourteen and under crowd are masking the purchase of illegal drugs via the parcel system. Yet
the Irish Mirror and its sources would like you to believe this is a rampant problem. They act within the words of this
editorial as if this problem is plaguing the young generation and they want you to believe that if it wasn’t for Bitcoin,
the illegal drug trade would cease to exist.
3. Time and time again the media will try and transform things to fit a certain
agenda. For example, the stories linking ISIS to Bitcoin were revealed to
be misleading, as UK Treasury’s report noted that Bitcoin is at the very
bottom when it comes to terrorist funding and money laundering risk.
These stories demonstrate how bad the game of “telephone” really is on
the internet as information becomes twisted and distorted but still
presented as “news.” In the Bitcoin world, this can happen quite
frequently and without remorse. When days later these reports are found
to be falsified, misleading and blatant lies, the mainstream media never
apologizes.
The point of the quick and sensationalized propaganda is to put fear and
doubt into the public’s minds. These stories are quite typical and are a
dime a dozen to those in the Bitcoin crowd. The articles lack true integrity
but, unfortunately, those who’ve never heard of the currency may believe
this sensationalism. The best thing we can do is describe the utter absurdity and show the blatant lies from their
stories.
“LITERATURE IS THE ART OF WRITING SOMETHING THAT WILL BE READ TWICE; JOURNALISM
WHAT WILL BE GRASPED AT ONCE.”
– CYRIL CONNOLLY
Re-posted from www.news.bitcoin.com by Jamie Redman January 31, 2016
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